The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195?, July 01, 1949, Page 12, Image 12

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    10
Civil Service Training Classes
Improve Employees9 Ability to Serve
Eighty of t.he»9.8l-
who recently com pleted the first
state-w id e training courses in O re­
gon’s his w y M o n d a y received tra in ­
ing ^ r t i f i c a t f s i together w ith some
sound advice from G overnor Douglas
McKay.
The Governor, participating in a
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dt
th d
/ lib rary building, deplored
th e m easuring of success in term s of
ab ility pD -acquire money.
He em phasized, how ever, th a t h™
believed in good wages and f o r k in g
' I ,in
greater efficiency and b e tte r service.
“The im portant thing is not the
b
i
<'i y o u
the Gov­
ernor continued. “The physical plant
has some bearing on perform ance but
tells w h eth er ,any
project will be a success of a
• G overnor M cKay was w arm in ES®
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Darwin Caspell, A ssistant Office Man, OSHD W eighmasters Office, receiving honor certi­
ficate for com pletion of course in Accounting Principles from Governor Douglas McKay.
Robert R. Johnson (seated), Director of Civil Service Commission, and Jam es " Clinton
A ssistant Director, interestingly observe ceremony.
“T ry to be the best in your business
or p ro fess^ n ^ o r iny.whatever line you
w ant to follow,” G o v ern o r' McKay
said. “I would ra th e r be the best boot-
black in town, for instance, than the
wOr§t law yer.”
tude shown by these trainees, who took
p art of the special in stru ctio n on; their,
own time. He ref erred to public I em -
ploym ent as “representing to some
people a crusade in the in tere st of
Iw dB fovernm IS It.”